I want to record my current photography workflow as a reminder to both my future and current self. (It has a lot of steps in it, and sometimes I forget them.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iPhone X<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In both cases, the photo goes into the photo roll on my phone, and gets synced to my iCloud\/photos account. Photos are 4032 x 3024px (12 MP). This usually clocks in around 1.5-2.5 MB per image for the compressed HEIC\/HEIF files, and 12-13MB for the accompanying DNG\/RAW file if I take one of those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fuji X-T20:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At this point the photos from the Fuji camera eventually<\/em> exist in eight<\/strong> separate places:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not paranoid. I’m protected.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apple Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the JPEGs photos have been imported, I tend to<\/em> arrange them into Albums based on the import for the event\/occasion\/date, named with the date of the event\/occasion in them (in YYYYMMDD format) and arrange those albums into folders by year, so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You’d think that this would make it easier for the app to keep all these albums sorted in a sensible order, but apparently not<\/em> \ud83c\udf4e\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f. It’s good enough most of the time, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For imports from the Fuji, if I’ve been taking photos of birds or people, I’ll generally have a lot of bursts of consecutive photos. I cull these in Apple Photos, actually deleting<\/strong> the JPEGs I don’t want. It’s not so much that I want to save space in my cloud storage (I have 2TB, which is plenty for this workflow, for now) – it’s more that it helps keep the most important photos easily to hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the library from which Apple selects “memories” to display on my home screen, and where I look back to find my favourite photos of a year, or an individual event. I don’t typically need a dozen burst shots of a magpie taking off – it’s enough for me to just keep the best<\/em> one. The fact that the originals (and the RAW versions) are still available on the SD card and on the SSDs if I need them is good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo processing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the thing: I don’t generally process my photos very much once I finally get them into Apple Photos. I may make small<\/em> tweaks to exposure, black levels and contrast, and I’ll often crop<\/em> images. But I don’t do any extensive editing of the because I don’t know how<\/em>. Yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’d like to learn how to do more with the RAW files, but there’s a bit of a learning curve. Adobe Lightroom<\/a> is one fo the standard tools in this space, but I’d like to avoid Adobe software if I can, because I dislike how it leaves behind background tasks and doesn’t clean up after itself. Capture One<\/a> might be an alternative. I also don’t always appreciate subscription software, so I might give Exposure X7<\/a> a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In all of these cases I would probably benefit from a computer refresh. My current laptop is a 2013 MacBook Pro, which means it’s coming up on 10 years old. It was top-of-the line when I bought it, and it still works fine for most<\/em> of my daily use, but it is starting to struggle with my photo library. On the occasions when I do open up a RAW file, it’s noticeably slow. I’ve replaced the battery pack in it once already, and I can tell from the slightly bulbous bottom plate (spicy pillows<\/a>)<\/em> and mere 2-hour battery life that it’s due for another. I’m trying to hold out as long as I can, though, because these things are expensive<\/em>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I want to record my current photography workflow as a reminder to both my future and current self. (It has a lot of steps in it, and sometimes I forget them.) iPhone X: In both cases, the photo goes into the photo roll on my phone, and gets synced to my iCloud\/photos account. Photos are … <\/p>\n\n
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